A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:13:29 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/16 / 2016-05-01 03:13:29 / May 1, 2016 @ 3:13 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005ct0. Unique identifier: us10005ct0. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.795 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -98.1527° West, 36.8581° North, depth 6.795 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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